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Taking A Data-Driven Approach To Sleep Should companies take any interest in how their employees sleep? Sleep is one of the most intimate parts of our lives. Our dreams withhold our deepest fantasies, secrets and fears. As the head of a tech company devoted to health, I was asked to answer [...]

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This is the third contribution of Cedric Hutchings - French Withings CEO - to Forbes in a couple of months.

3 interesting notes about this paper :

the insights about sleep-activity mashes up data collected through the Withings wearables and complementary surveys.

the trend for Wearables company is to publish articles that share deep insights ont their users data which became massive. Jawbone Lead Data scientist published such results a month ago ("What makes people happy?").

it is not banned to pusblish massified data even if they are guaranteed as anonymous in TOU.

By extension, it appears that such communication are able to reinsure audience and consumers, as well as nurturing the scientific research field. It definitely offers a positive image of the Wearable and Digital Health Tech companies (Samsung Simband ; Apple Research Kit ; Google Health Kit ...)

Garten began by describing Muse’s ability to distinguish a calm mind from an active one, then got into one of its more cutting-edge features, which, though it has not been rolled out commercially, a hacker can set up. With the hack in place, she said, once the user has succeeded in learning to control brain activity (specifically, to vary the speed of electrical pulses by closing his eyes or breathing deeply), he could potentially use the feature to interact with and control physical objects. Garten described it as “telekinesis.”

Fitbit shares are spiking more than 13% after the dual publication of May sales results -- which showed Fitbit devices outsold Apple Watches -- and a bullish Wall Street note that said Fitbit sales are in shape and poised to take off.

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Interesting figures :

Fitbit will ship 16 million devices this year

Fitbit sold over 10 million fitness trackers devices last year (from TechNewsToday.com)

RBC surveys of potential wearable-device buyers show that consumers are more included to purchase a fitness tracker than a smartwatch.

Fitbit sold 850,000 of its devices in May, beating the 777,000 AppleWatches sold during the same period.

Fitbit Inc. jumped more than 50% in its public trading debut earlier in the month and has gained another 18% since that day. But according to RBC Capital Markets, this growth is just the beginning.

There is a surprisingly rich ecosystem of devices, a plethora of uses, and importantly, a wealth (both in quantity and value) of markets that are investigating the value of wearables in the enterprise.

To capture the different hardware types, uses, and common capabilities we’ve seen applied to wearables, our Periodic Table of Wearable Technology groups together the major elements of wearables to outline what executives need to know before deploying these devices to their workforce.

The future of wearable tech and self-tracking apps in the health and wellness sector will be all about quality over quantity, according to the panelists at a quantified self-centric session at CES Asia this week.

CEO Kevin Plank said : “We are growing our community at more than 30 percent year over year and so far in 2015 these users have voluntarily logged over 1 billion workouts and more than 5 billion foods.”

The dashboard Under Armour is building, within UA Record, will focus on four key metrics: sleep, fitness, daily activity, and nutrition.

“We think the consumer needs a dashboard that just says ‘How am I doing?’,” Plank said. “If I can look on my cellphone and I can figure out my bank balance, my stock price, or the weather in any given city — the fact that I have no measure or barometer of my health except for going to see a doctor ever 12, 1,8 or 24 months, we think is really a crime.” - Another element to the health dashboard that they are focusing on is defining success for the consumer and providing the user with context. - “This isn’t just about knowing that I took 8,000 steps yesterday,” Plank said. “But because I took 8,000 steps, how did it make me feel? And more importantly, how did that work with how I slept or what I ate that day? And we think that having that information is going to allow them to make better decision to live healthier and enriched lives — affecting ultimately, obviously, fitness, but we think there’s an outlook for us to affect global health, which gets us so excited.”

Wearable fitness technology is more than just tracking your steps as researchers push smartwatches to greater sophistication.

Olivier Janin's insight:

a good overview of what challenges and opportunities are behind the Fitness tracking wearables in terms of Science and health research. Fitbit, Apple, Google, Samsung, Withings, all of them set up a bright articulation between their B2C retail model and an ethical healthy long-range vision.

With these new advances in science, we have a choice to shape the new paradigm in health and medicine.

Olivier Janin's insight:

A great perspective description of what could be the Future of Medicine. Between Psychoneuroimmunology and disruptive bio-hacking opportunities based on critical research results (like the recent discovery of functional lymphatic vessles in the brain), and more defensive historical Medicine and the next wave of Big Pharma.

This is a good perspective on how healing is important to the future of medicine. This article also talked about how people are looking back at the ancient practices of medicine to learn the power of healing and how to use it effectively.

The biofeedback loop is very well designed here. "This experience of seeing your brainwaves represented on an external object in-turn influences the brainwaves that you are creating, which are then represented again on the external object," tells Laura Jade.

Google intends to be more accurate than HR Wearable Trackers on the market. Particularly by using bio-impedance technology (and not infrared photopletysmography as Apple Watch for example). Google watch embeds Valencell Technology, one of the key Tech actor which succeed to license its HR tech in numerous devices, from headset to wristband.

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